I like this a lot, for two separate reasons: 1) It spells out the mechanisms behind my intuition that violent revolutions lead to violent/unstable countries afterwards. While a peaceful revolution doesn't guarantee peace, it doesn't create extra seeds for violence. 2) It gives a sensible explanation for why other stable countries with high gun ownership don't have the gun violence we see in the US. Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger How do you reintegrate people who have participated in mass violence into society? We don't often think about this, but our past successes, and failures, to do so have defined our world profoundly. I wrote this as a follow-up to a side comment I made in a tweet thread this morning about ICE's child seizure policy. ( https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/1007296192378597382 ) I decided to dive more deeply into it, because it's something most people don't know much about the history of, and it's important. https://medium.co...
